September 9, 2011

UNIONTOWN ‚Äď That sunny day in September 2011, retired Pennsylvania Police State Trooper Chuck Depp knew what had happened in New York City. He knew what had happened in Washington, D.C.

And at a certain point the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, he knew what had happened in Shanksville, about 60 miles away in Somerset County.

‚ÄúI knew what was going on, because I had a experience with some other plane crashes in my career,‚ÄĚ said Depp, who retired as the head of detectives at Troop B‚Äôs Uniontown barracks, Fayette County.

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September 9, 2011

PUNXSUTAWNEY ‚ÄĒ A Reynoldsville woman faces two counts of attempted criminal homicide and other charges after she allegedly fired about six shots from a .22 caliber revolver at her husband behind a district judge‚Äôs office Thursday.

One of the shots struck her husband‚Äôs car, while another struck a private residence along Pleasant Alley, police said.

September 9, 2011

REYNOLDSVILLE ‚ÄĒ Having recently viewed the Oscar-winning film ‚ÄúThe King‚Äôs Speech,‚ÄĚ Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati told guests gathered at the Jefferson County Department of Development‚Äôs annual luncheon Thursday that what America needs now is ‚Äúa King‚Äôs Speech.‚ÄĚ

He described how the film, based on a true story, portrays King George IV who, despite a debilitating speech impediment, learns through unique and unorthodox techniques to find his voice, which he uses to inspire the pre-World War II United Kingdom.

September 9, 2011

PUNXSUTAWNEY ‚ÄĒ Dylan Hackbarth is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, but he‚Äôs deferring a graduate program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a year in order to take on a ‚Äúonce-in-a-lifetime‚ÄĚ experience.

The experience? Driving the legendary Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to locations between the East Coast and the Midwest for the next year.

September 9, 2011

PUNXSUTAWNEY ‚ÄĒ Behind strong serving ‚ÄĒ with a total of 19 aces over three games ‚ÄĒ the Lady Chucks volleyball team swept Brockway, 3-0, to earn its first regular season win.

Punxsy's Janie Depp-Hutchinson led the team with seven aces, including five in the first game, and Sydney Weaver added six aces for Punxsy.

"I think one of our strengths as a team is serving," head coach Lisa Kephart said. "We have a lot of great servers throughout the rotation. They do well, and when they serve it hard and get it in, they're usually hard to defend."

September 9, 2011

Mr. Kelso was born June 19, 1919, in Brookville, the son of the late Arthur E. and Bessie B. (Smith) Kelso.

In 1981, he married Florence (Dolly) B. Hetrick, who survives.

Mr. Kelso graduated from Brookville High School in 1938 and joined the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was stationed four years in Australia in the Pacific Theater as a radio operator on a C-47 transport plane.